What's the impact on "WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing"
Issue
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Each time when we reboot the server, we see the following messages in
/var/log/messages. What do they mean and how can we fix this issue?Mar 19 07:53:55 serverX kernel: dm-4: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing. Mar 19 09:58:36 serverX kernel: dm-4: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing. Mar 19 10:00:52 serverX kernel: dm-4: WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroing. -
Do I need to worry about
WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroingmessages in my logs. - The logged event
WRITE SAME failed. Manually zeroingis causing the system to take a long time to reboot (slow reboot).
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL)
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